Records Management Assistant

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This system was developed as an interim solution to allow users to declare
documents as records. The system is provided under the terms of the
Apache License
Version 2.0.

What is it exactly?

Many government and local government organisations have a requirement
to securely store electronic records. basically any document and/or
email could potentially be a record that requires storing for some later
retrieval. in The UK the recent Freedom of Information act has been
the catalyst for many government organisations realising that they need
a way to store a retrieve these documents. These records will often
need metadata (so that they can be easily classified and found) and
an appropriate search mechanism so that the records can be found.

Why didn't we buy one?

The organisation that I work didn't particularly wish to spend many
millions of pounds implementing a top tier enterprise ready records
management system. The issues with these systems can be:

Very Expensive,

Tricky learning curve for the user (onerous training issues),

Integration with existing systems can be hard.

That was the basic set of business requirements for what we called
the IERMS (Interim Records Management System). It was supposed to be
an interim system but its still going strongly!

What do I do now?

What about modding the source / support / maintenance?

All of these things are doable. Under the licence terms you can mod
the source yourselves. Please feel free to send any amendments back
to the project!

However, I'm also available to do direct mods for you at a reasonable
day rate. I can also do consultancy during your installation and arrange
maintenance contracts for support issues and bug fixes. If you need
any of this and it interests you pop me a
mail.